The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Revenge of the Fawns, sentence 135
When they came to the shore the old Wolf was choking, coughing, and crying, and so mad that she would not pay the Beaver as she had promised--and from that day to this the Beaver will never again ferry a Wolf across the river.
Who acts: Wolf, old Wolf, Peé, Beaver · What happens: come, choke, cough, cry, not pay, promise · To what, where: shore, Beaver, Wolf, river
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Revenge of the Fawns. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wolf, old Wolf, Peé, Beaver), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 shore | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shore | det |
| 6 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Wolf | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Wolf | amod |
| 9 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 choking | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 choking | aux |
| 11 | choking | choke | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 shore | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 coughing | punct |
| 13 | coughing | cough | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 choking | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 crying | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 crying | cc |
| 16 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 choking | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 mad | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 mad | cc |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 mad | advmod |
| 20 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 came | conj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 pay | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 pay | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 pay | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 pay | advmod |
| 25 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 mad | ccomp |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Beaver | det |
| 27 | Beaver | Beaver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 pay | obj |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 promised | mark |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 promised | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 promised | aux |
| 31 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 pay | advcl |
| 32 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 44 ferry | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 ferry | cc |
| 34 | from | from | ADP | _ | 36 day | case |
| 35 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 day | det |
| 36 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 ferry | obl |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 this | case |
| 38 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 day | nmod |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Beaver | det |
| 40 | Beaver | Beaver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 ferry | nsubj |
| 41 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 ferry | aux |
| 42 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 43 again | advmod |
| 43 | again | again | ADV | _ | 44 ferry | advmod |
| 44 | ferry | ferry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | conj |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 Wolf | det |
| 46 | Wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 ferry | obj |
| 47 | across | across | ADP | _ | 49 river | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 river | det |
| 49 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 ferry | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Wolf | the shore | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to shore=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | choke | past · progressive | the old Wolf | the shore not said here | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent shore=Destination | ||||
| 3 | cough | gerund | the old Wolf not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | gerund | the old Wolf not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not pay | would | Peé | the Beaver | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beaver=Asset | ||||
| 6 | promise speech: promise | past · perfect | Peé | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | ferry | future | the Beaver | a Wolf | the river | again; never; day | vn vehicle-51.4.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme across river=Trajectory |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Project Gutenberg book 77804 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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